Miami climbs to 1, BYU to 2 after chaotic week shakes up AP poll — SkimNews
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- Miami climbed to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 for the first time since 2002, earning 40 of 70 first-place votes and edging BYU by just 22 points after beating Florida State in double overtime to remain unbeaten.
- BYU jumped to No. 2 — its highest ranking since the 1984 national championship season — after a 28-24 home upset of then-No. 4 Notre Dame as a 10.5-point underdog, improving to 6-0 for a third straight year and drawing 20 first-place votes.
- Ohio State slotted at No. 3 with nine first-place votes, sitting 26 points behind BYU after beating then-No. 6 Indiana and completing a tightly bunched top three separated by fewer than 50 points overall.
- Georgia dropped from No. 1 to No. 5 after a home loss to unranked Auburn, lasting just one week atop the poll and becoming the second straight No. 1 (after Texas) to fall to an unranked opponent — unranked teams have now beaten No. 1s in consecutive weeks for the first time since 1990.
- Alabama tumbled seven spots to No. 13 after losing at Tennessee, and Texas plummeted 12 rungs to No. 19 following a home loss to Florida; Notre Dame and Georgia both stayed in the top five despite their close defeats.
- The SEC leads all conferences with nine ranked teams (Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, LSU, Texas, Florida, Missouri), followed by the Big Ten (6), Big 12 (5, paced by No. 2 BYU), ACC (3, led by No. 1 Miami), and one each from the Pac-12 and Independents.
Why it matters: The collapse of five top-seven teams — a first in 90 years of AP rankings — hands No. 1 to Miami (the first ACC No. 1 since Clemson in 2020) and elevates BYU, which hadn't been in the top five since 1996, scrambling the 12-team College Football Playoff picture heading into November.
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